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Essays 271 - 300

Criminal Justice System and the Importance of Societal Understanding

give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...

Drug Offenders and Modern Day Prisons

incarcerated for a drug offense accounted for the largest percentage of the total growth (59%), followed by public-order offenders...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

HIV Positive Assessment Findings Summarized

can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...

America's 'Super Maximum' Prison Security

held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...

Social Control Problems

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

Prison Privatization Argument

Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...

Prison and Cell Phones

or orchestrate the smuggling of more contraband" (16). In another state, the state of Arkansas, "Prison officials...see the spread...

Austin H. MacCormack and Thomast Mott Osborne

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

Overview of Behind a Convict's Eyes

of ethnic minorities in the prison system in the modern era. In his work Stigma: Notes on the Management of Soiled Identity, Goff...

Gobbet Analyses in the UK

treatment of prisoners at that particular time. As well as our usual prisoner survey, we also carried out structured interviews w...

Interrogation Policy Analysis and Abu Ghraib Prison Prisoner Torture

in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...

California's Young White Males

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Prisons Should be Privatized

controlled by government. Questions in respect to government involvement and authority loom large. However, questions are even mo...

State of California and the Problem of Prison Overcrowding throughout the United States

p. 3569). Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amo...

Capital Punishment or Life in Prison

executed in the United States in 1995, the most since 1957. With more than 3000 inmates on death row nationwide -- more than any t...

Ancient Prisons

In seven pages this research paper explores ancient 'prisons' in a consideration of Old and New Testament lands of Rome, Greece, E...

Mexico, United States, Canada, and Corrections Systems

In ten pages this research paper examines the prison systems of North America in a consideration of similarities and differences w...

Corrections Officer's Job Description

In ten pages this paper presents an overview of a corrections officer position in a discussion of the prison system, use of firear...

Prisons and Drug Abuse

In five pages a literature review is presented regarding drug abuse in prisons with linkage between the abuse of substances and re...

Prisons, Management, and Leadership

In twelve pages leadership and management are considered within the context of prison operations. Six sources are cited in the bi...

Corrections and Strategic Planning

In ten pages this paper discusses the importance of strategic planning in the prison system with criminology theories also examine...

Prisons and Jails Compared

less of them because they are state facilities, or federal facilities. The Federal government has gathered data and publish...

Overcrowding in Prisons

a court appearance lasting about a minute (Scott, 1996). The four main purposes for prisons are incapacitation, deterrence, r...

Prison Overcrowding

In five pages the problems of prison overcrowding are discussed with some solutions and freedoms considered. There is no bibliogr...

Violence in U.S. Prisons

In fourteen pages this paper considers the causes and possible solutions to U.S. prison violence. Eight sources are cited in the ...

Disregard for Law and Prison Gangs

In fourteen pages this paper discusses how prison gangs blatantly disregard the law in a consideration of member recruitment, empl...

Corrections, Control, and Privileges of Prison Recreation

In twenty five pages this paper examines the control issues associated with prison inmate recreation and considers whether or not ...

Prison Recreation Specialist and Human and Health Performance Research

In twenty pages research conducting, reading, and application of research findings are considered within the context of a Prison R...